Recipe for flour paint, protection of exterior woods
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What do you put to protect your exterior wood?
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What do you put to protect your exterior wood?
When your wood is stained does the wood asks for more the following year?
Your wood is autoclave (you think it’s beautiful)?
Your wood is raw but tends to age badly to the ravages of time?
Ingredients for 3 liters of flour paint
- – 300g flour – 3l water – 600g pigment
- – 300ml linseed oil
Recipe for flour paint
Heat an old pot, pour 300g of flour with 300ml of water, when it starts to heat, pour gradually 3 liters of water stirring (as for a white sauce), and bring to a boil for 10 minutes (and you have a white sauce without the butter).
Then add 600g of pigment, and 300ml of linseed oil, bring to a boil again for 30 minutes.
Let it cool, it’s ready, we made 3 liters of Swedish paint.
You can add a little black soap (for texture), and iron sulfate (better outdoor resistance against foams, to be banned indoors).
Usage
Clean the woods before application (a blow of pressure washer is perfect), I advise you to remove the existing paint or stain (or sand coarsely).
Paint with a brush or wide brush, no risk of dirt (the paint is easily cleaned with water), do not skimp on the paint.
The painting will last at least 5 years or even more. To make a white paint replace the pigments with white Meudon.
I only see advantages
– manufacture at will
– mono-layer (perfect covering power on bare wood) – dry in 1 hour at 20 ° C
– ridiculous cost (0.20 € of flour, 4.5 € of pigment, 1 € of linseed oil, 0.30 € of electricity for cooking), or 2 € per liter of paint that says better
– cleaning tools with water
– ecological and healthy with its basic raw materials (while commercial paints are force-fed dangerous volatile components)
– Warranty 5 to 10 years (or even more)
A real pleasure to create his paint to repaint the exterior woods, children willingly participate in this activity, it brings a touch of cheerfulness to the garden.
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